Marbling: A History and a Bibliography.
by EASTON (Phoebe Jane)
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- Hardcover
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Grantham, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1983. 4to (280 x 220 mm), xiv, 190pp., limited to 750 numbered copies, signs of labels having been removed, includes a number of tipped-in samples (of which some are coloured), minor stain to lower spine effect several text leaves, orig. cloth, marbled paper sample inset in front cover. One of the most comprehensive texts written on marbling, designed by Joseph Simon and Lillian Marks. Included is a history of the craft in Japan, the Near East, Europe and America.
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- Bookseller
- Forest Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40004
- Title
- Marbling: A History and a Bibliography.
- Author
- EASTON (Phoebe Jane)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1983
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Forest Books
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....